 | 1833 - 874 trang
...want of gVill Where there has been contributory negligence on the part of the plaintiff, — ie, where he might, by the exercise of ordinary care have avoided...the consequences of the defendant's negligence— be is not entitled to recover. By 9 and 10 Viet. c. 93 (commonly called Lord Campbell's Act), when... | |
 | 1897 - 518 trang
...proposition established by those cases is that, although there may have been negligence on the part of the plaintiff, yet, unless he might by the exercise...ordinary care have avoided the consequences of the defendants' negligence, he is entitled to recover. From what I have found as to the negligence of the... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Exchequer, Roger Meeson, William Newland Welsby - 1838 - 828 trang
...Butterfield v. Forrester: and that rule is, that, although there may have been negligence on the part of the plaintiff, yet, unless he might, by the exercise...defendant's negligence, he is entitled to recover : if by ordinary care he might have avoided them, he is the author of his own wrong. That is the only... | |
 | Ireland. Court of King's Bench - 1850 - 646 trang
...Mitchell (b) the result is thus stated, that " although there may have been " negligence on the part of the plaintiff, yet, unless he might by " the exercise...defendant's negligence, he is entitled to recover ; if by ordinary "care he might have avoided them, he is the author of his own Bradley v. Waterhovse... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Exchequer - 1840 - 554 trang
...(«'), Lord Ellenborough states the rule to be, that although there may have been negligence on the part of the plaintiff, yet, unless he might by the exercise...defendant's negligence, he is entitled to recover; if by ordinary care he might have avoided them, he is the author of his own wrong. Lord ABINGER, CB... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, John Scott - 1841 - 922 trang
...Forrester, 11 East, 60; and that rule is, that, although there may have been, negligence on the part of the plaintiff, yet, unless he might, by the exercise...defendant's negligence, he is entitled to recover : if by ordinary care he might have avoided them, he is the author of his own wrong. That is the only... | |
 | Archibald John Stephens - 1842 - 998 trang
...Butterfield v. Forrester (11), and that rule is, that although there may have been negligence on the part of the plaintiff, yet, unless he might, by the exercise...defendant's negligence, he is entitled to recover : if by ordinary care he might have avoided them, he is the author of his own wrong." (12) If a horse... | |
 | William Selwyn - 1842 - 822 trang
...be entitled to recover ; for the rule is, that although there may have been negligence on the part of the plaintiff, yet, unless he might by the exercise...defendant's negligence, he is entitled to recover : if by ordinary care he might have avoided them, he is the author of his own wrong (A). " If I am... | |
 | 1844 - 510 trang
...general rule of law respecting negligence is, that although there may have been negligence on the part of the plaintiff, yet unless he might by the exercise...where the defendant negligently drove his horses and wagon against and killed an ass, which had been left in the highway fettered in the fore-feet, and... | |
 | John Simcoe Saunders - 1844 - 594 trang
...general rule of law respecting negligence is, that although there may have been negligence on the part of the plaintiff, yet, unless he might by the exercise...where the defendant negligently drove his horses and wagon against and killed an ass, which had been left in the high-way and fettered in the fore-feet,... | |
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I believe quite correctly, that "the rule of law is laid down with perfect correctness in the case of Butterfield v. Forrester, that, although there may have been negligence on the part of the plaintiff, yet unless he might, by the exercise of ordinary... 
